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When Harvey Met Bob

BBC2 and RTE - 2010

Starring
IAN HART as Harvey Goldsmith
and
DOMHNALL GLEESON as Bob Geldof
with
ANTONIA CAMPBELL-HUGHES

and PAUL RHYS as Paul McCartney

Written by Joe Dunlop

Production Manager - CAIT COLLINS
Sound Recordist - MERVYN MOORE
Casting Director - AMY ROWAN
Costume Designer - ALLISON BYRNE
Production Designer - FIONA DALY
Editor - TONY CRANSTON
Director of Photography - OWEN McPOLIN

Directed by NICHOLAS RENTON

Produced by CATHERINE MAGEE

Executive Producers ROBERT COOPER and KATE TRIGGS

Filmed in Dublin

Sales: BBC Worldwide (Great Meadow’s profits on the film donated to The Band Aid Trust).

Set in London between Winter, 1984 and the Summer of 1985, WHEN HARVEY MET BOB focuses on the extraordinary relationship between Bob Geldof and Harvey Goldsmith as they created and pulled off the historic and life-saving Live Aid/Feed the World event.

In October 1984 Geldof's career as a rock star was at something of a low point. One night he comes home to see his wife, Paula, in the dark quietly watching the legendary BBC broadcast by Michael Buerk from the feeding camps in Eritrea province. Bob takes his eyes from the screen only once to see Paula holding their baby and weeping.

Bob is deeply affected and moves into action. First he persuades a host of rock stars to give their name and talent for free to the Band Aid record - "Do they know it's Christmas" - which sells millions of copies. But when he goes to Ethiopia to ensure the proceeds from the record will reach the starving people, he realises that so much more needs to be done. He needs to raise even more money to fulfill his promise that every penny from the record will get there. It is at this point that he conceives the idea of a global music event to feed the world.

Enter Harvey Goldsmith, the famous and well-respected music promoter. This is the start of the roller-coaster ride that is the often hilarious and ultimately deeply moving story of the relationship between Harvey and Bob as they go from a madcap idea and a list of unconfirmed acts, to the biggest televised international charity event in history.

WHEN HARVEY MET BOB is a funny, lively, life-affirming drama that reminds us that the battle against global poverty and famine is not insurmountable but needs constant vigilance.